I’ve only been skating twice in my life and both times I just fell on my ass trying to even stand up.
How do you do flips and shit while balancing on razor blades against a near frictionless surface? I don’t think humans were meant to do that shit.
Skates gotta be tight as hell, tighter than you think. You'll have leftover lace, wrap them around the ankle part of the skates for more security. If you don't do it right you'll roll your ankle, but if you do it should be really hard to even get it to bend
Practice with a chair, put most of your weight on your lead foot, turn your back foot slightly out and push with it. Switch the weight to the foot you pushed with, and repeat. You should get a rhythm going.
Don't be afraid to fall, as long as you have a helmet and maybe some pads you'll be fine. Try to sort of collapse if you do, rather than kick your legs to regain balance which will only result in flopping on your back, try to land basically sitting. When you feel like you're about to fall, buckle your knees and slide. That's not a great description so I hope it makes sense.
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I don’t think humans were meant to do that shit.
Humans on ice skates are impressive but have you ever seen footage of mountain goats doing their thing on cliffs? They don't even win medals. All they get for their death defying stunts is stuff like grass or salt.
The angular velocity of a figure skater, weighing 50 kg, is 3π/2 radians/sec. Assuming a frictionless surface...
Is this a reference to 2005 American teen sports film Ice Princess starring Michelle Trachtenberg
No, it's just a reference to physics problems that assume a frictionless surface, a massless wire, etc. for the sake of simplicity.
I asked cause that movie is about another physics dork who decides to do figure skating, I haven't thought about it in 15 years but that reminded me
I mean it clicked for me as in my ankles clicked when they buckled and I hit the ice
why is taking your whole bodyweight on your ankles so hard for you?
Yeah, it's definitely just those scheming asiatics doing that. That would never happen in any western country.
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I mean, the main thing for me was balancing my weight on such a thin surface was a struggle. Is that core or like my ankles?
I had inline skates as a kid and found ice skating to be not that different. I was able to move around the rink, but was never good at anything remotely acrobatic.
Last time I skated I landed directly onto my butthole and have not tried since
practice. I used to skate a ton growing up and it's just how you fall at first riding a bike, but then it's super easy and you can even do it with one hand on the bars or no hands, hop a curb, etc.
Once you get used to the balance, it feels comfortable. Also, the near frictionless surface is why you push sideways and have your blade at an angle to the ice.
And yes, as another commenter said, your skates should be super tight, like how soccer cleats are. You should have a ton of control.
